作者:Western University (University of Western Ontario); University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要:This study examines technical change, trade, economic structure, and growth during the British Industrial Revolution by means of computational general equilibrium (CGE) modeling. It rejects Peter Temin's contention that our new view of sectorally concentrated productivity growth is inconsistent with industrial export data. A CGE trade model with diminishing returns in agriculture and realistic assumptions about consumer demand shows that while technical change in cottons and iron were major sp...
作者:University of California System; University of California San Diego
作者:New York University; Vanderbilt University
作者:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
作者:Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University; Claremont McKenna College
摘要:This article examines the. Confederate cotton bonds floated in Europe in March 1863 and traded on the London market. Over a 27 March 1863 to 17 June 1865 sample we isolate two, nonreversed, turning points that follow news of Confederate: defeat, at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July 1863 and the fall of Atlanta in September 1864. The analysis suggests that the turning points important to Southern interests differ from those identified for the Northern side by Kristen Willard, Timothy Guinnane, a...
作者:University of Pennsylvania